Tim Harington Looks Back

EARLY DAYS. SCHOOL AND SANDHURST
missed me in the slips before I had scored. God bless him
for it!
Maryborough had a player called Shorland, who had a sister
at the Ladies' College at Cheltenham, so, on the second morn-
ing of the match before play began, the other twenty-one
players accompanied Shorland to see his sister at the Ladies'
College. The headmistress was the famous Miss Beale, who
will always be remembered for what she did for that college.
She was known to be "severe". We rang the bell, little
knowing what was going to happen. Shorland told the
maid that he had come to see his sister, and had brought a
few friends! Miss Beale came to the front door and saw us
all in our flannels and college blazers, and she took no time to
make a firm decision. Without a moment's hesitation she
said: "Mr. Shorland,! shall be pleased to allow you to see your
sister, but I will admit none of your friends I" and, quite
rightly, she shut the door on us!
When I was at Cheltenham College we won both the
Ashburton Shield at Bisley and the Public Schools Gymnastics.
Needless to say I had nothing to do wida either. My only
part was to help drag die winners up from the station in some
very old-fashioned carriages. One of my greatest friends
was Reymond de Montmorency, the famous golfer, who
died recently; he was a master at Eton for many years.
As I write on Cheltenham, all sorts of stories come back
to memory, none of them very edifying. Two of them have
to do with hymns. In my time there was a junior master
named Chalice, and we used to wait for the verse in
"The King of Love my Shepherd is" which mentions "Thy
pure Chalice floweth," to yell out "Chalice" with such
force that the hymn had to be stopped. In a certain match
versus Marlborough two of die Marlborough XI were named
Wood and Stone, who had both, I think, made a century
against us on the previous day; Whether the hymn which
contains "Bow down to Wood and Stone5* was chosen